Huxtable referred to this first plan as "a heart-chilling cliché of standard towers in a non-environment of vacuous spaces, a familiar formalism grown weary and stale since the nineteen-thirties, when it was hot from Le Corbusier".
One model that the young team proposed at the meeting was of a fairly standard orthogonal tower distinguished by an amoeboid-shaped atrium.
Its design, called Hywind, uses a standard turbine tower bolted to a vertical concrete buoy anchored by three cables to the ocean floor.
An even more significant alternative would be the construction of standard cooling towers in each building.
As an example, he singles out the Rusanivka district in Kiev, where standard prefab towers of the 1970s are integrated with canals and embankments.
Had Gehry merely licensed his name to Ratner (as many felt he did by his involvement with Ratner's Atlantic Yards project, in Brooklyn), letting him sell a standard-issue tower as a Frank Gehry building in exchange for Gehry's adding a few flourishes?
He also challenges the mayor's claim, in the Evening Standard, that towers approved by him "will not conflict with the views of great London buildings such as the Palace of Westminster or the Tower of London or St Paul's".
A standard Sawyer-Tower circuit was used to measure the hysteresis loop.
And although many standard office towers are still begging for tenants, unconventional "creative" office buildings such as former warehouses are attracting new occupants despite rising rents.
Other improvements added were five 45 m television standard light towers, a watering and drainage system able to disperse up to 100 mm of rain an hour, and 85 in-ground sprinklers capable of rising 15 cm.
